Data Caricatures: On the Representation of African American Language in Pretraining Corpora (2025.acl-long)
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Nicholas Deas, Blake Vente, Amith Ananthram, Jessica A Grieser, Desmond U. Patton, Shana Kleiner, James R. Shepard Iii, Kathleen McKeown
| Challenge: | Recent work in linguistics and NLP has investigated the quantity and quality of AAL representation in pretraining corpora. |
| Approach: | They examine the quantity and quality of African American Language (AAL) representation in pretraining corpora. |
| Outcome: | The results show that AAL is underrepresented in all evaluated corpora compared to US demographics . they also show that most automated filters are more likely to conserve white Mainstream English (WME) texts over AAL . |
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